iMagine Photo is the tool for the automated processing of digital photographs using AppleScript.

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A powerful image and movie frame processing tool for AppleScript that uses Apple's Quicktime and Quartz technologies.iMagine Photo is a compositing tool for images, movie frames, shapes and text for AppleScript. iMagine Photo provides comprehensive reading and writing exif support for image files. iMagine Photo comes with example scripts and AppleScript droplets for the typical image file processing of scaling, cropping and rotating. iMagine Photo can be used to watermark images, set copyright and author metadata. iMagine Photo can be used to draw text on the image, for example, to add your copyright message and/or your URL as a line of text on the bottom of your images. You can also use iMagine to scale images and movie frames and control the file size of your jpeg images. These features provide the tools necessary for preparing your image files for the internet while securing their copyright.iMagine Photo comes with scripts for getting various types of metadata from image files and saving the data in files suitable to be opened in spreadsheets or storing the data in MySQL databases. Example scripts show you how to write exif metadata to image files.

The Alpha Channel (Transparency) of the graphic document can be set, and if exporting the graphic document as TIFF, JPEG 2000, PNG, Targa or PhotoJazz the alpha channel will be added to the exported image.

iMagine Photo can be configured to run as a background only application

All compositing can be done in a window or offscreen. Ofscreen compositing is faster

Able to copy an image to the clipboard with applied transformations.

For iMagine Photo's AppleScript documentation click here.

*Will only work when setting meta data or rotating images by 90, -90 and 180 degrees, or flipping the image horizontally or vertically. Setting the export compression quality or export target data size will also turn off dont recompress.